Australia: World's worst per capita Greenhouse Gas polluter

According to a list of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions per capita compiled by the World Resources Institute, the “annual per capita GHG pollution” in units of “tonnes CO2-equivalent per person per year”, Australia is the world's leading polluter.

With the US led cabal of developed nation’s sabotage of the Kyoto (1997), Bali (2007) and Poznan (2008) Climate Conferences, the future outlook for island nations and those in mega-delta regions like Bangladesh, looks bleak. Australia has already used up its share of terminal GHG pollution budget and is now stealing the entitlement of other countries including acutely global warming-threatened countries such as Somalia and Bangladesh.

Dr James Lovelock FRS (Gaia hypothesis) and Professor Kevin Anderson ( Director, Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Manchester, UK) have recently estimated that only about half a billion people will survive this century due to unaddressed, man-made global warming. Note that the world population is expected to reach 9.5 billion by 2050 (UN Population Division).

If the hijacking and sabotage of future world climate change agreements continues unabated and if developed nations are not brought to book, much of the developing world will succumb to this “climate genocide” and not see out the end of this century.